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Re: An Ode to Emily Saliers and The Indigo Girls

claudine — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:16:04 -0000

thanks for this!! I have grown up with them too and your words describe a lot of how they have influenced me too.

Re: Book review: Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions For Kids

The Whyman — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:18:04 -0000

"Warren Smith discusses the wildly popular book "Jesus Calling" by Sarah Young. Learn insights into the spirit behind the voice that spoke with author Sarah Young. Are the teachings in the devotions consistent with biblical teachings or are they something else?

Warren Smith a former New Ager probes the phrase " Presence" which occurs over 300 times and the New Age nuances that proliferate this popular teaching.

"Smith raises Ten Concerns about the original book God Calling, which entered the Christian world in 2005, and Twenty Concerns about Sarah Young's Jesus Calling, which has more recently taken the evangelical world by storm."

Read/listen to the rest here:http://amos37.com/2013/12/1...

Re: The NLT is not a scholarly translation?

Barry Smith — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:42:02 -0000

I think what Larry is try to say is this...

Just looking at the New Testament both the NLT and NET bibles are coming from the same source text the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece which is based off Westcott and Hort which is coming from the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus Text. You want to Talk about Imperialism I would consider those Bibles to be part of the Global Religious Imperialism that is sweeping across the World.

Im going to keep using the Byzantine & Koinē Text Type which has closer ties to the Original.

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Re: Never Alone #MennoNerdsOnLoss

Eddie Gonzalez — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:54:14 -0000

Testing the comments. GOod stuff.

Re: An Ode to Emily Saliers and The Indigo Girls

KimbrahG — Thu, 30 May 2013 22:19:54 -0000

Nice to meet another fan! Good luck with your writing! :)

Re: An Ode to Emily Saliers and The Indigo Girls

n/a — Thu, 30 May 2013 20:50:18 -0000

Thank you for sharing this! I love IG's music so deeply too; I have no idea why the folks around me don't really seem to care for them! They are such incredibly talented musicians and writers. They stand out in the soundtrack of my memories too...along with Joni Mitchell and a couple others :) .Thank you for reminding me to write, too :) .

Re: New farm poster’s finally up

Lana Elfstrom — Sat, 04 May 2013 15:30:43 -0000

LOVE it!!!

Re: First Baptist Dallas, again

Justin Hiebert — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:00:57 -0000

A needed rant. Physical upkeep of a building is (I think) one thing. But a $130 million dollar add-on is quite another. I wonder if they really go to bed at night thinking, "God is so please with this big building." Sad. Shameful. And embarrassing to be lumped in with their bad theology.

Re: First Baptist Dallas, again

MJMcEvoy — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:54:21 -0000

Thank you for bringing all this to my attention. Here is the begining of a series I plan to do on the Architecture of Power:
http://macfhiodhbhuidhe.blo...

Re: First Baptist Dallas, again

Eddie Gonzalez — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:15:41 -0000

Amen, Dave. Well said. Even in these two posts, though a had to vent my frustration going on in my own head and spirit, I wanted to make sure I finished off focusing back on myself and what I need to positively do within my own community.

Re: First Baptist Dallas, again

Dave Simmons — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 06:38:38 -0000

As someone who doesn't even own a cross necklace, the flashiness, and spectacle they are trying to create is very odd to me. I am wondering if their books are open to the public? It would be interesting to see where they spend their money, maybe they have so much that they are putting a lot out through various ministries, I don't know. The whole, let's build a larger church mentality is a strange thing, especially for a building that is only fully used 2 or 3 days a week. Why not ad more services, 3 or 4 on Sunday, 2 on Saturday, 1 each weekday if it works. Or team up with other churches to use the building other days, I know our local body shares a building with 2 other churches and a daycare.
It is hard not to be very critical of them, but then I wonder if I am seeing their speck as opposed to my own log. For whatever reason, Texas and the over the top mega-church has become a strange marriage. Hopefully their new building will allow barefoot, and dirty clothed people to come walk on their new carpets and sit in their fancy chairs. I do know we have to be careful if we don't know all the facts. I do know 1 of the mega-churches in so-cal that gives back out 2/3 of what it takes in, and I know of some serious dollars they have put out to some good causes, but sadly, I think this is more often the exception than the rule.
At the end of the day, I guess one of the best things we can do is try and make sure we, as individuals, and then hopefully as a collective, set out to be part of the solution, rather then part of the problem.

Re: Book Review: God’s Reign and the End of Empires

Eddie Gonzalez — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:45:00 -0000

I'm not going to say it's mandatory reading or anything like that. Just that especially all Mennonites should make it required reading.

Re: Book Review: God’s Reign and the End of Empires

Robert Martin — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:47:18 -0000

Yet another book to add to the insurmountable "to read" list...

Re: Subtle Racism is dangerous

Michael Snow — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:37:04 -0000

John Woolman traveled up and down the Eastern Seaboard in the 18th Century, convincing Quaker meetings of the wrongness of slave holding.
A synopsis (with citations) in ch 2 of http://textsincontext.wordp...

Would be glad to send you the pdf.
I could also refer you to a good contact on Quaker history who teaches at John Wesley college in N.C. if you need any help with sources.

Re: First Baptist Dallas

Eddie Gonzalez — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:30:24 -0000

Amen brother. See...at least someone can do so calmly.

Re: First Baptist Dallas

MJMcEvoy — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:41:27 -0000

Big churches are an outgrowth of the Constantinian Shift. It came with the absorption of the Roman Empire, by the Holy Roman Empire, where architecture was a display of power. One only has to look at the architecture in government centers, it is the unadulterated display of power. As Paul wrote to the Ephesians:"

For we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places.", it is those powers that manipulate people. It is those powers that helped create First Baptist Dallas.

Re: Farm update: February 2013

MJMcEvoy — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:40:11 -0000

Spring here is still 3 months away.
If you need ideas, and plans, for farm buildings this is a good source:

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/exte...

We are hoping to move onto our land next spring (2014). As of yet we have no buildings there. Need to wait until the ground thaws completely to put in the pad for the cabin, and plant fence posts.

Re: Don’t (Le) Mis the Point

Robert Martin — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:03:04 -0000

Here ya go... my response, fleshed out a bit more. :-)

http://abnormalanabaptist.w...

Re: Don’t (Le) Mis the Point

Robert Martin — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:08:05 -0000

I get what you're saying, Eddie. And, perhaps, that is one of the central themes of Hugo's novel. But the film was a silver-screen presentation of the Broadway play and, as an interpretation of the novel, one has to expect a different emphasis.

The poor and marginalized are not left out in the film (one of the more powerful sequences is the "At the End of the Day" being sung by the filthy masses of poor). But what comes out VERY strongly is not just the differentiation between the rich and the poor, but the different reactions to the problem of the poor. I saw three.

1) People who are down deserve to be down. People who are up deserve to be up. This seems to be the general sentiment embodied by Javier. It's not exactly prosperity gospel but more on the lines of you get what you deserve. If you are destitute and poor, you must have done something wrong to deserve it. Only he righteous will be able to come up out of the mud and muck.

2) People who are down need someone to fight for them and they will join the fight and welcome the violent upheaval with open arms. This is what Marius and the other young students thought. The poor are oppressed. They must rise up against the oppression and supplant those in power with people who, obviously, know a better way. It doesn't matter if revolutions have been tried before and failed, THIS time we'll get it right because THIS time we have the light of destiny with us

3) People who are down need someone who knows what it means to be down to step down into the filth of the sewers, the brothels, the water-side and lift them up, not because they are, for some reason or another, more holy, more righteous, but because they have receive an amazing gift of grace themselves and feel the overwhelming, burning, passion to share that gift with anyone who needs it.It is this third point, I believe, that is the message of the film and the stage play. Yes, "The Miserable Ones" play a role... but I think it's important to recognize that how we deal with "Les Miserables" is just as important as whether or not we deal with them. Point 3 is incarnational, full of grace, full of compassion, and sacrificial. This was Jean Val Jean's position and the lives he touched were transformed by it. It was this position that Javier couldn't comprehend and, because it warred so deeply in him, took his own life. It was this position that the young men on the barricade could not comprehend. Why didn't the people join them? Couldn't they see that they had their best wishes in mind?

Anywho, I'll probably copy and paste all this in my own evaluation of the film. But yes, grace is definitely a central theme in the movie... but not just grace for grace's sake, but grace given so that grace can grow as it is given to others.

Re: Poll: Why did the south secede?

Eddie Gonzalez — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:20:53 -0000

You make an excellent point about the Northern support of slavery. They liked the "benefits" of slavery. Today it's no different: we like the "benefits" of $15 for pants. But oh how dirty our hands are.

Re: Poll: Why did the south secede?

MJMc — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:17:38 -0000

Interesting poll, it was a fairly complex issue, but it all boiled down to money and how they made it. Not surprisingly, many Northerners supported slavery much in the same way people support Walmart today -- cheap, or supposedly cheap, goods.

Re: See. We have this thing about oaths

Biggreencanoe — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:13:47 -0000

Sad thing is, that is almost verbatim from the oath that you take when you join the military. It is also pretty close tot eh oath you have to take to work for the Federal government in a civilian position (like Forest Ranger). I almost didn't accept a position with the USFS over this issue but for a friend and mentor in Wisconsin.

Re: See. We have this thing about oaths

Biggreencanoe — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:40:54 -0000

I can see the drop-out/failure rate in Arizona climb a little. Unfortunately, not enough to make a difference to the regressives who support such a bill. Probably just scapegoat those who don;t take the oath as social misfits and outcasts..

Re: Book Review: Red Letter Revolution

Eddie Gonzalez — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:33:58 -0000

If you can get one, I think it's a good volume to have. But, still, the format is tough for me. Sometimes it's obviously forced to make it seem like a conversation, but very awkward in transition.

Re: Remembering the Anabaptists today

Eddie Gonzalez — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:31:18 -0000

Thanks, man.